Everyone complains about the news media but few know how it really works. allows you to peek inside the business. Geoff Mann is not the everyman hero type. He loves writing but doesn't find a practical venue until he works for a weekly newspaper then lands a job as a journalist at a radio station, and finally as a television news director. Mann faces tragedy over and over as he witnesses it first hand when he loses a parent and his best friend. Geoff discovers he is ill equipped to deal with the brutality of a world where profits are paramount as he helplessly watches the business he once loved pass him by. is a novel that is an emotional paradox, and is ultimately the loss of innocence.